February 15, 2025 San Francisco Purchase Tickets Below

Contemplative Practices: Overt and Covert Clinical Allies

Morning Session 9:45-11:45am

Presented by Fiona Brandon

Fiona Brandon, MPS, MA, MFT, is the Director of the Nalanda Institute’s Compassion Based Resilience Training (CBRT) and Embodied Psychotherapy programs. As a licensed psychotherapist and clinical consultant, she integrates Buddhist psychology, depth psychology, expressive arts therapy, dream imagery, and sensorimotor psychotherapy in her work with adults and couples. Fiona is a co-editor and contributor to the 2023 anthology Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Accelerating Healing and Transformation (2nd ed.) published by Routledge.

Training

A 2-hour workshop on integrating explicit and implicit contemplative practices into the clinical dyad. I will offer colleagues some practical tools and inspiring ideas for integrating mindfulness and compassion practices into their work with clients. I will guide colleagues first in the practice of mindful sensitivity followed by a case study; and then guide the practice of tonglen followed by a case study. The case studies will illustrate practical ways for integrating the practices into our work as MFTs.

ReParentive® Therapy - Relational Repair from an Invalidating Childhood

Afternoon session 12:30-3:30pm

Presented by Pamela Rosin

Pamela Rosin, MFT is the founder of ReParentive® Therapy. A certified Hakomi Therapist, she utilizes experientially based modalities and a synergy of Buddhist and somatic psychologies to cultivate healing. She integrates her professional acting background, a decade as a bodyworker, and years of teaching Shakespeare in prison.

Pamela draws from a multitude of experience in various educational and therapeutic arenas. She embodies the precepts of ReParentive Therapy; bringing relational, loving presence to support learning. Pamela’s creativity, ability to personalize the material, and emphasis on nervous system regulation, supports students’ access and integration.

A graduate of the Integral Counseling Psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she is currently adjunct faculty, Pamela’s therapeutic orientation has been influenced by the Eastern/Western blend provided at CIIS, traditional Freudian, psychodynamic, and transpersonal approaches, and by the many wise mentors and guides with whom she has traveled.

For those who want to further their experiential knowledge and theoretical understanding, the next ReParentive Therapy Training begins March 7.

Training

Leveraging somatic intervention while addressing attachment wounds, ReParentive® Therapy is an intergenerational trauma healing model for clients who grew up in invalidating environments. This includes people with a parent who was not consistently available for multiple possible reasons, and especially because of a cluster B personality disorder such as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Learn about the unique developmental wounding and core beliefs that often result from this history and how to work to transform them.

This interactive and experiential introductory-level workshop will allow participants to:

Learn the impact of growing up in an invalidating environment, i.e. with a parent with BPD
Learn ReParentive tools to address attachment wounds and negative core beliefs for those raised in an invalidating environment
Apply somatic and mindfulness principles for the therapist’s personal nervous system in order to promote co-regulation in clients
Learn the theory behind ReParentive® Therapy, including 10 ReParentive Principles
Discover why group therapy is most suited for healing in the target population

TARGET AUDIENCE: Licensed psychologists, licensed social workers, licensed professional counselors,licensed marriage & family therapists, and pre-licensed professionals

Morning Session $25 members / $35 non members *lunch not included

Afternoon Session $35 members / $45 non members *lunch not included

Full day Training and lunch included $50 members / $60 non members